Feb 9, 2015 | Uncategorized
Acts of vengeance to vindicate honor have been in the press on a near daily basis this past month, causing me to think seriously about how Jesus exposes and deals with human violence and reveals God’s radical, shame-disarming power. In the immediate aftermath of...
Feb 3, 2015 | Uncategorized
DARE WE HOPE for the SALVATION of ALL? Origen, St Gregory of Nyssa and St Isaac the Syrian Bishop Kallistos Ware The Collected Works Volume I The Inner Kingdom, St Vladimir’s Seminary Press Crestwood, New York 2001, 193-215. Prev. publ. in Theology Digest 45:4 (1998),...
Feb 2, 2015 | Uncategorized
The following excerpt is from the Jesuit theologian, Gustave Martelet, in his article on 'Hell' in The Encyclopedia of Christian Theology, Vol. 1 (ed. Jean-Yves Lacoste). Our creation in Christ has made us, by vocation, into beings to whom the...
Jan 30, 2015 | Uncategorized
Reality at all levels and in every dimension is a mystery. I will not suggest that the world which we experience with our own senses is not reality; nevertheless, what we perceive is the surface of reality, which is penetrated only with great effort over time. The...
